The PASS Business Analytics Conference is coming up fast (April 20th-22nd) and we’ve gathered some of our favorite Data and BI experts to chat about this year’s event in Santa Clara, California. [1:15] What is the PASS BA Conference? How is it different this year? [3:18] Why are you excited about…

This week's episode of Data Exposed Scott welcomes Ron Matchoro, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the SQL Server team. Today, Ron introduces us to a new feature just released to Azure SQL Database called Dynamic Data Masking. Dynamic Data Masking is policy-based security feature that provides…

This demo provides a quick tour of the new SQL Server Data Tools. SSDT makes it easy to develop powerful database solutions that target both your on-premise environment and the cloud. Roger Doherty Senior Program Manager, Microsoft

Welcome to the inaugural episode of SQL Unplugged, your avenue for asking question to, and talking with, the three individual who own the relational database at Microsoft; Shawn Bice, Nigel Ellis, and Rohan Kumar. In our very first episode, Shawn and Nigel answer questions and discuss topics around…

Module 1 provides an understanding of the two major components of a database system. The database constitutes the files that store data, and the instance is the collection of server resources that provide a powerful, high performance interface to the data. It also illustrates how the two interact to…

In this week's episode of Data Exposed Scott welcomes Maxim Lukiyanov, Senior Program Manager in the Big Data team at Microsoft, who walks us through a great introduction for using HBase to build big data type applications. For the first of many shows on HBase, Maxim walks us through how HBase is…

This week, Scott welcomes Torsten Grabs, a Principal Program Manager Lead on the SQL team focusing on elastic scale for Azure SQL Database. In this exciting and much-anticipated episode, Torsten introduces us to Azure SQL Database Elastic Scale; .NET client libraries and Azure cloud service packages…

Here is a new plugin by MS Open Tech for Apache Cordova (PhoneGap): WebSQL. This plugin brings the ability to have a persistent SQL Database in a Cordova app using the same code across iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8. This video shows how this work and explains how it has made possible…

In this week's episode of Data Exposed Scott welcomes back Tony Petrossian, Group Program Manager for business continuity in Azure SQL Database, who introduces us to the preview release of Azure SQL Database. This NextGen release introduces near-complete SQL Server compatibility and better…

This week, Scott welcomes George Huey, a Principal Technical Evangelist in DX at Microsoft to the Data Exposed show. In this episode, George gives us a detailed look at the SQL Database Migration Wizard, an open-source tool designed to migrate your on-premises SQL Server databases to Azure SQL…